Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

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as compared with the corresponding ne
Rod of the fiscal year. The total col
lections from oleomargarine since Nov
1 amounted to $296,1O9.
A dynamite cartridge was exploded
on the track under train on the Geary
street railroad in San Francisco Tuesday
night, but no one was injured.
Between 1 and 2 o'clock Monday
morning three masked men entered the
Gulf, Colorado s. Santa Fe railroad de.
pot about mile from the business por
ton of Richmond, Texas, and at the
point CT pistol compelled Station
Agent Hagen to open the safe. They
secured $4,000 in money and escaped
The steamer Delaware of the CLYDE
line is ashore in the breakers near ST.
Andrews sound, Ga. Tugs have gone
to her assistance.
The report of the sixth auditor of re
ceipts and disbursements of the postof-
flee department for the quarter ended
Sept. so, 1885. shows an excess of ex.
penditures over the receipts $1,694,64
Excess of expenditures over the re
ceipts for the quarter ended S pit. 80,
1885, 80 393.74O. Net gain compared
with 1885, 100000.
At a meeting of the members of Trim
ity Lutheran church at Oshkosh, Wis,
Sunday, thirty Knights of Labor were
given four weeks to renounce the order
or leave the church.
Two thousand five hundred men and
girls employed at E. s. Higgins & Co.'s
carpet mandatory, New York, struck
Monday morning. The strike resulted
from the discharge of certain employees.
The firm is one of the three largest in
its line in the United States. The fac
tories occupy both sides of Forty-third
street from Eleventh avenue to the
river. The product of the establish
ment amounts to 100000 a year.
Advices from Shanghai report that
the British steamer Nepaul, from Lon
don, collided with and sunk Chinese
transport. One hundred soldiers and
several marines were drowned.
"Baby" Adams, tried for the theft o
$4,000 worth of stamps from the Min
neapolis post Office, was found guilty
by the jury in the United States district
court at Chicago Saturday morning.
Cotton shed No. of the Merchants
Cotton Press and Storage company,
Memphis, was burned early Saturday
morning, together with $500 bales of
cotton. Loss about 100000, fully In
sured.
Hamilton and Ludberry, the murder
ers of Harris brothers in Bradley coun-
ty, Ark, were released from the Jail at
Warren, Thursday night, by party of
masked men and lynched.
The famous suit of Daniel Wells, Jr.,
against Peter McGeoch, the we'll known
specularor, with whom he was associa-
ted in The disastrous lard deal at Chicago
in 1888, was decided by Judge Mann at
Milwaukee Saturday morning in favor
of McGeoch, the suit being dismissed
with costs. The judge said that "the
dealings OF the firm were gambling con-
tracts and conspiracies against public
policy, and for that reason the court
could not even entertain the suit"
The court at Edinburgh, Saturday,
granted a decree of divorce in the Mar.
chloness of Queensbury case On the
grounds of adultery. 1t was shown
that the Marquis lived with another
woman in his apartments in st. James
street, London. The Marquis made nc
defense.
A suit for 100000 damages was filed
In the circuit court at st. Louis Friday
afternoon by the st. Joseph & st. Louis
railroad company against the st. Louis
Iron Mountain s. Southern and the Mis-,
souri, Pacific railway company for al
legged violation OF contracts.
Postmaster J. B. Button was removed
from the Augusta, Wis, post office
Thursday by Inspector Darlington, who
discovered shortage of 1888 in But
tons accounts. His bondsmen have
made good the loss.
The secretary Of the treasury Thurs
day transmitted to congress estimates OF
appropriations for defraying the ex'
penses of collecting the revenue from
customs for the next fiscal year. The
total amount of estimates is $6,540,873
Antolnette Cablek in Cleveland, Ohio,
Thursday morning killed three of her
children and MORALLY wounded two 9TH
ers and then suicided by hanging. Nc
cause for the terrible deed Is gwen. The
husband does not think his wife was
sane.
The Western Iron association held q
meeting Wednesday at Pittsburg and
decided to not advance the car rate. B.
F. Jones was reelected president and
Joseph D. Weeks, secretary.
A dispatch from Peniche, Spain, say:
that the steamer Brentford from New
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